[Another lost and found unsent message. :-)] Gregory Conron <gconron@hfx.andara.com> writes:

does anybody know of widely used naming conventions used for shell scripting?

I do not know much to say about this. Shell variable are either global (in the environment) or local. Many environment variables and a few local variables have special meaning for the shell, so you have to use the proper name then. See the shell `man' or `info' page for details. It is unusual that a shell script uses so many variables that much conventions are needed. The evident one is that environment variables are written in capitals and local variables in lower case, but this is only a convention. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq